Jamie Anderson, Gerry’s son and Managing Director of Anderson Entertainment says, “This year’s celebration of the work and worlds of Gerry Anderson will be a very different event to last year’s – an unconventional convention seeing us using not one but two very different venues to tell the Anderson story. We’re launching on the Friday Night with a full programme at the Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre in Leicester, including Sean Feast’s ‘A Thunderbird At Bomber Command’, enabling us to keep the main event at the Athena firmly under wraps until the Saturday morning!”

“We’re also announcing our first guests too, with the news that we’ll be joined throughout the weekend by Special Effects genius Brian Johnson, and celebrating 50 years of Thunderbirds with David Graham, Shane Rimmer and Matt Zimmerman”

“Our team is working hard to create a very different convention experience, not only looking back to past televisual triumphs, but also celebrating the Anderson legacy with new productions including Zeroids and Cubes, Firestorm and Thunderbirds Are Go.”

As with last year, tickets are priced at £45 for a single day ticket, with bolt on options available for the Friday evening Launch Event, and the Saturday evening Top Secret Briefing. Concession and Child tickets are also available.

Scott Tracy is calling all International Rescue agents to attend ANDERCON 2015 – Anderson Entertainment’s second annual convention for fans of Gerry Anderson, MBE and his award-winning cult hits such as THUNDERBIRDS, CAPTAIN SCARLET, STINGRAY, UFO, and SPACE: 1999.

The convention takes place this June 13th-14th, with a launch event taking place on the evening of June 12th, at the Athena Leicester, a stunning, fully-restored 1930s cinema in Leicester’s Cultural quarter.

There will be a special focus on THUNDERBIRDS for the show’s 50th anniversary, and promises to be a must for fans of the show of all ages!

Jamie Anderson, Director of Anderson Entertainment said “It’s going to be a great chance to meet the cast and crew in person and to see the original props up close. We’ll have exclusive screenings, panels and workshops, Q&A sessions and quizzes and costume competitions with super prizes”.

Tickets will be available before the end of the month.

To find out more about the THUNDERBIRDS celebration of the decade, the convention itself head over to the ANDERCON 2015 website, and don’t forget to like the Facebook page and follow on Twitter.

Gerry Anderson created some of the most iconic characters of our lives from Captain Scarlet to the Thunderbirds. The enduring nature of his shows have earned the Anderson empire a place in entertainment history and in many of our hearts. So much so that every year, enthusiasts of the shows gather to enjoy seeing exclusive exhibits and artifacts from the filming of the shows to meeting some of the stars and crew who bought them to life. The ‘Andercon Convention’ brings together fans from all over the world and this year, it’s in Leicester!

Please click here to listen to the full interview with Jamie Anderson on BBC Radio Leicester.

Jamie Anderson, son of Thunderbirds’ creator Gerry Anderson, visited ITV News Central, telling Bob Warman and Sameena Ali-Khan about the much-loved series, which is due to make a comeback to British TV screens this year.

Thunderbirds Are Go! will feature original and new cast members including David Graham from series 1, who will revive his role as chauffeur Parker.

Jamie Anderson also spoke about the preparation underway for Andercon, an annual convention for worldwide fans, which is being held in Leicester later this year.

Please click here to view the full interview of Jamie Anderson on ITV Central.

For 50 years children and sci-fi fans of all ages have enjoyed Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s iconic Thunderbirds series.

And this year the creators’ son, Jamie Anderson, will be bringing Andercon to Leicester.

First held in London last year, the convention at Leicester’s Athena in June, will include models and actors from the original 1964 series, as well as plenty for fans to enjoy from other Gerry Anderson productions, such as Captain Scarlett, Stingray, UFO, Space: 1999 and Joe 90.

Jamie, who is managing director of Anderson Entertainments, said: “This is the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of Thunderbirds in September 1965 and it’s still going strong enough for a new series to be coming out this year.

“The convention is going to be a major celebration of Thunderbirds with replicas, vehicles and actors.

“We’ve got the voice actors who played Scott Tracy and Parker coming, and we’ve also got a premiere of our new sci-fi series, Firestorm.”

The convention will be held over June 13 and 14, with a launch event on June 12.

Jamie said: “There will be things for fans of all ages. Conventions used to be just for geeks and people wouldn’t go if they didn’t think they were big enough fans.

“But they’re real family events now and at the convention in London last year we had three generations of the same family who were all fans.”

He said he was sure he had found the perfect space for the convention when he first entered the Athena, an art deco former cinema in the city’s Cultural Quarter.

He said: “I’d been to Leicester in the past but only to events at the National Space Centre because I’m a massive Doctor Who fan.

“Seeing this building for the first time really knocked me sideways.

“It’s an amazing place and it’s like when you’re house-hunting and you can walk into a building and get that feeling about it.”